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Working with Parents in Therapy: A Mentalization-Based Approach

Author(s) : Norka Malberg, Author(s) : Elliot Jurist, Author(s) : Jordan Bate, Author(s) : Mark Dangerfield

About the Author(s)

Norka Malberg, PsyD, is a certified child and adolescent psychoanalyst who trained at the Anna Freud Centre in London and obtained her doctorate at University College London for her adaptation of MBT to group work in a pediatric hospital setting. She is currently an assistant clinical professor at the Yale Child Study Center in New Haven, Connecticut, where she is also in private practice. She has a special interest in the applications of MBT to children in foster care as well as those experiencing chronic illness and other impinging somatic conditions (e.g., epilepsy, chronic eczema, asthma).

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Elliot Jurist, PhD, is Professor of Psychology and Philosophy at The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, where he served as Director of the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program from 2004 to 2013. His research focuses on mentalization and the role of emotions in psychotherapy. Dr. Jurist is the coauthor of Affect Regulation, Mentalization, and the Development of the Self and co-editor of Mind to Mind: Infant Research, Neuroscience, and Psychoanalysis. He is also the editor of the Guilford book series Psychoanalysis and Psychological Science and the editor of Psychoanalytic Psychology, the journal of Division 39 (Psychoanalysis) of the American Psychological Association. He is a recipient of the Scholarship Award from Division 39, among other honors.

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Jordan Bate, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Combined School-Clinical Child Program, Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University, where she coleads the psychodynamic practicum and teaches courses in beginning work with children, parents, and families and cognitive assessment of children.

She is also a supervising psychologist in perinatal and child psychotherapy services at Northwell Health, Lenox Hill Hospital, and maintains a private practice in Manhattan, New York.

She has written multiple papers on attachment and mentalization in psychotherapy with parents and children, as well as the impact of parents’ Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) on their attachment and parenting. Her research lab focuses on the applications of attachment to psychotherapy process, and innovative ways of training clinicians in mentalization and interpersonal skills.

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Mark Dangerfield, PhD, received his doctorate from Ramón Llull University, Barcelona. He was trained in mentalization-based treatment and the AMBIT model (Adolescent Mentalization-Based Integrative Treatment) at the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families in London and was the clinical manager of the pioneering ECID project.

The project, which he helped develop at the Vidal and Barraquer Foundation in Barcelona, is based on the AMBIT model and focuses on young people with high psychopathological risk and high risk of social exclusion.

He is currently a professor at University Institute of Mental Health of the Ramón Llull University, teaching advanced courses in psychoanalytic psychotherapy and family therapy, and serves as director of the University Institute of Mental Health at Ramón Llull University.

He has published articles on AMBIT, the ECID project, and related topics, and has extensive experience in clinical supervision.